SMART DIGITAL FUEL INDICATOR SYSTEM

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SMART DIGITAL FUEL INDICATOR SYSTEM

#1Choudhary Saurabh, ^#2Barapatre Shubham, ^#3Bhong Kiran, ^#4Sarawale R.K.

#123U.G. Students, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering,

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Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, JSPM’s Imperial College Of Engineering & Research, Wagholi, Pune, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

Today in this digitized world, if the fuel marker in the vehicles is additionally made advanced. It will know the correct measure of fuel accessible in the fuel tank. Here, we are showing the measure of fuel in the tank in liters. This incentive in litters will be in numerical digits (ex: 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4). This project predominantly focuses about the sign of fuel level in bike tanks and predicting the user location by using latitude and longitude value which is send by GPS to the system. This project evades a great deal of issues like fuel bunks at fuel stations, fuel burglary and keeps us from getting into circumstances where we need to push our vehicles because of suppositions of the level of fuel. These days the fuel pointer framework for the bikes are computerized yet they don't show the correct measure of fuel which is available in the tank i.e. they demonstrate the measure of fuel as far as bars and not in numbers or digits like liters or Milliliter. So this issue is contemplated for our work of building up the computerized (numeric) fuel pointer framework for bikes which indicates correct measure of fuel regarding Liters (L) or Milliliters (ml).

Keywords: PIC16F877A Microcontroller, Ultrasonic sensor, Hall effect sensor, LCD (20*4 Character), GPS Module

I. INTRODUCTION

The current fuel demonstrating framework in vehicle utilizes simple and computerized visuals for indicating surmised status of fuel level, not displaying the amount in numerical. This framework alluded demonstrates the fuel level in numerical by utilizing LCD. In India, mileage issue has risen to be a major issue prompting clients stalling out in obscure zone since they neglect to check the fuel level. This proposed configuration can give an approach to stop this issue and control the exorbitant utilization of the fuel to the client by demonstrating mileage. This proposed configuration will be useful to control the stream of the fuel in the vehicle, additionally persistently shows the fuel left and the kilometre it can cover. This is finished by controlling the fuel use with the assistance of units put in the fuel tank and when the fuel tank gets unfilled a sign is given for the driver that the fuel is void and the vehicle will kill.

On the premise of PIC 16F877A advancement of this plan is done and to demonstrate the fuel that is available in the vehicle LCD show is utilized as yield unit. The Characters got from the controller unit is recently shown and in

addition the fuel level and the separation it can travel, so that the client can drive at the existing fuel.

II. L

ITERATURE SURVEY

Authors in [1] suggests that, With the increase of vehicle usage over the world, fuel necessary has become a tremendous problem. Design and implementation of load cell based fuel measurement measures the accurate level of fuel adding while fuel filling process. There is a large variety of methods for measuring fuel level, ranging from those using mechanical floats and capacitive and optical sensors to ultrasound methods. Nowadays all fuel bunks having types of digital displays unit in order to display the value of fuel adding to the vehicle. But the disadvantage of using load cell is that it can’t be used for measurement of highly reactive material such as petrol. So we decided to use ultrasonic technique for petrol level measurement as it is a non –contact type measurement method.

Author [2] suggests that, In all over the world all the vehicle are having an analog fuel meter. This meter indicates three states of fuel level which are empty, half and

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fuel tank. In Fig1 we can see analog meter, which shows the fuel level by using needle. But due to this we do not get proper idea about fuel level present in fuel tank. Due to improper knowledge of fuel present in the tank we can undergo in trouble due to low fuel.

Fig 1: Analog Fuel Meter

As considering previous analog system we are going to implement advanced system. In our system we are doing digital fuel meter and theft detection. In digital fuel meter we are indicating the amount of fuel in the tank in liters.

This value in liters will be in numerical digits (Ex: 1 lit, 1.5 lit, 2 lit).

III.

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ELATED WORK

Fig 2.Block diagram of digital fuel indicator system In the system, the microcontroller PIC18f877A is used.

This controller is extremely helpful to utilize, the coding or programming of this controller is additionally simpler.

PIC16f877A finds its applications in a huge number of devices. It is used in remote sensors, security and safety devices, home automation and in many industrial instruments.

The sensors that are used is Hall Effect sensor and ultrasonic sensor.

The ultrasonic sensor is installed in the tank to sense the level of the petrol. And the Hall Effect sensor is used to count the rotation of the wheel. The GPS is used to get the location of the user.

The working of the system is, the ultrasonic sensors which are installed in the tank use to sense the level of petrol and send it to the controller, the controller will show that level in digital (numeric) form like (1.2, 2.2, 5.4etc) on the 20*4 LCD display.

Fig 3: LCD (20*4 Character)

Also the rotation of the wheel is counted by the Hall Effect sensor using magnet which is place over it and these pulse are given to the controller.

Fig 4. Hall Effect sensor with PIC18F877A

According to that, the LCD which is connected to the controller shows the speed, mileage, fuel level and estimated distance is displayed on the LCD.

The additional GPS circuitry is used to provide location of user, by using latitude and longitude of corresponding area of user. GPS fetching the latitude and longitude value of the user location and send it to the system. The Apache Software is used to fetch the latitude and longitude values and MY SQL software is used to store the data of the user location in the web server, and display on the map.

Fig 5: GPS Module

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The system shows the following values:

1. Fuel in Liter 2.Est.Distance 3. KMph (per hour) 4.KMpl (per liter)

Fig 6: Digital Fuel Indicator System With Parameter Indication

LCD shows the Latitude and Longitude value of the user Location, the GPS Antenna monitor the latitude and longitude value of the User Location and these values will be sent to the system com port.

Fig 7. Showing the latitude and longitude value on the LCD Fig. below shows the actual location of the user on the map.

by using latitude and longitude value of the user which is sent by the controller using GPS to the com port of the system.

Fig 8:The actual location of the user by using latitude and longitude which is sent by the controller using

GPS to the com port of the system.

V. CONCLUSION

The smart digital fuel indicator is very advance type indicating system. The main advantage of this system is that it can gives accurate value of remaining fuel as well as the vehicle running capacity in km. The operation time taken is very less. All the equipment’s have long life, durable &

quality material. This project is able to show that simple available hardware and technology can be used to construct a robust fuel level monitoring system. It also shows the location of vehicle to the user by using the latitude and longitude value. The system designed and tested in this project presented at the low construction cost of the system .Involving mechatronics in such design applications can eventually solve many practical problems with ease, reliability and at low cost.

Even though the quality of material used and components used are of good quality, the cost of the project is not so costly and it can be used and implemented in all vehicles without much increment of cost of the vehicle. This smart fuel indicator is best in its field and will be most widely used and advance system.

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